‘Google Phone’ will be launched in the U.S. for U.S. $ 199

September 18th, 2008

Phone manufacturer of HTC will be the first to use software android.
Operating System Google seeks to consolidate use in mobile web.

The first mobile phone with Google operating system will come to the U.S. market for $ 199, according to information disclosed this Wednesday (17) by the Wall Street Journal. ” The unit is the manufacturer HTC and must be submitted by the operator T-Mobile in New York, next Tuesday (23). The software Google takes the name of Android.

Companies involved in the launch were sought by the Reuters news agency, but did not want to comment on the information.

AT & T, the only U.S. carrier that sells the iPhone, Apple’s, fixed the price of the latest version of the unit to U.S. $ 199, which established a benchmark for smart phones with Internet access, that manage email and have multimedia tools. This is the case of appliances that use the android.

The newspaper, citing people close to the matter, reported that the T-Mobile plans to launch new plans for data together with the phone Google, which will take “aggressive price”.

The operating system from Google, which will be compatible with various types of equipment, a variety of manufacturers, represents a challenge for the iPhone, Apple’s, and also for other companies involved in trade in smart phones such as Palm, Research in Motion, Microsoft and Nokia.

Android

The android was submitted in November 2007 and is part of a partnership between Google and dozens of other companies called Open Handset Alliance. According to Google, he will help the industry of mobile phones to make Internet phones work in the same way it works in computers.

“Our hope is that thousands of different models of phones are triggered by the android,” said Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google, at the time when the news was announced.

The operating system allows other independent applications are installed by users, after acquiring the device, as happens with the iPhone, Apple’s.

Russia has no “imperialist ambitions”, says Putin

September 11th, 2008

Russia has no “imperialist ambitions” and does not intend to “interfere in the sovereignty” of its neighbours from the former Soviet Union, said today Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, quoted by Russian agencies.

“We do not have and we will not have any of the imperialist ambitions that the accused,” said Putin during discussions of the club of reflection Valdai, the Kremlin, in Sochi in southern Russia.

“Russia took the initiative by the end of the USSR. If Russia had not adopted that position, the USSR still existed. We took this decision long ago, and we have no jealousy and no reason for intrometermos the sovereignty of the former republics of the USSR, “he added.

“We do not have any ideological divergence, no reason for a ‘cold war’,” he said. “On the contrary, we have many common problems, we can not solve efficiently if not through joint efforts,” estimated.

Vladimir Putin makes these statements on the day the President of South Ossetia, Edouard Kokoity, said the intention of not wanting to be part of the Russian federation, after some Russian agencies have indicated, earlier today, which would Kokoity said he wanted his country as a member of the Federation.

“I was obviously misunderstood. We do not intend to give up our independence, achieved through huge sacrifices and South Ossetia has no intention of entering the Russian Federation,” Kokoity said to Interfax.

Earlier today, Edouard Kokoity was quoted by Russian press agencies, two, Interfax and Ria Novosti, saying the opposite. “Yes, without any doubt, we will part of Russia and not our intention to create any independent Ossetia, because the history well established things, our ancestors made the choice,” said Kokoity.

For its part, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, also confirmed today in Warsaw that the separatist region of South Ossetia has no intention of entering the Russian Federation.

Modernization of arms is “high priority” of Russia, said Medvedev

The Russian President, Dmitri Medvedev, said today in turn about the crisis in the Caucasus that the modernization of Russian arms has become a “high priority” for Moscow’s threat to Georgians, quoted by agencies Interfax and Itar-Tass.

“We should focus on issues of renewal of military equipment,” Medvedev said during a meeting in the Kremlin. “This has become an objective that I have just set as high priority of state,” he added.

“This decision was without any doubt influenced by the crisis in the Caucasus, the aggression of Georgia and its continued militarization,” Medvedev continued.

The President stressed that the renewal of military equipment would be made “in stages, with care, from the problems that have arisen in recent times.”

The Russian president last Saturday accused the U.S. of having “rearmado” in Georgia under the guise of humanitarian assistance operations.

“Russia is a state with which we need from now on,” sentenced the head of state. “The world has changed after the day on August 8 this year”, he continued, alluding to the conflict between Moscow and Tbiliss on the territory of South Ossetia, but that pro-Russia officially part of Georgia.